Trivia / The Simpsons S7 E21 "22 Short Films About Springfield"

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: It turns out steamed cheeseburgers are a real thing in a specific area of Connecticut.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Skinner's line when he sees his roast is ruined is commonly misinterpreted as "Oh, egads!" due to how its pronounced, even though the script shows the line to actually be "Oh, ye gods!"
• Blooper: When Superintendent Chalmers holds his burger up to Skinner when saying "and you call them "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled", the bite he already took out of it magically reappears as he does.◊
• Creator's Favorite: To decide who would write each of the segments, all of the writers chose their top three favorite characters and put them into a hat, the names were drawn out and the writers were assigned their parts. Bill Oakley wrote the Superintendent Chalmers story, Josh Weinstein did the scene where Milhouse comes into The Android's Dungeon, desperately needing the bathroom and the Comic Book Guy tells him he can't use it unless he buys something (only for Milhouse's father to drag Milhouse out of the store because he thinks Milhouse faked needing the restroom), David X. Cohen penned the Reverend Lovejoy sketch, as well as the deleted Krusty the Clown scene. Brent Forrester wrote the Krusty Burger scene, while Rachel Pulido wrote the Bumblebee Man one.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: The episode is Bill Oakley's personal favorite episode.
• Cut Song: The "Apu in 'The Jolly Bengali'" segment had a theme song written for it. It was not used on the episode, but was released on the Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons album and as a deleted scene on the season seven DVD set.
• Defictionalization:
  • Fans have made their own recipes for "steamed hams".
  • Otto snaps a picture of Lisa, intending to sell it to Fangoria for twenty-five bucks. Sure enough the Real Life magazine featured a reader's submitted picture (from a "Springfield bus driver") a few months later, and they had spent twenty-five bucks for it.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: It is hated by two prominent figures within the running of the show, yet is considered one of the best episodes by fans.
• Missing Trailer Scene: One trailer used clips from a Deleted Scene of Ralph and Krusty on a plane. The former annoys the latter and makes him switch seats, only for Krusty to end up in a much worse spot between Patty and Selma. The scene was fully animated and voice acted, but never released, with this trailer footage being the only found final animation from it.
• Orphaned Reference: There was an elaborate fantasy scene involving Marge that was dropped, the only remnant of which is her cleaning the sink.
• Technology Marches On: "Well Seymour, I made it, despite your directions." Nowadays, Skinner would've just sent Chalmers the address to plug into a navigation app or website (though, knowing Skinner, he'd probably find a way to mess that up as well.)
• The Song Remains the Same: Many foreign dubs don't bother translating the intro songs for each skit.
• What Could Have Been:
  • This episode was written as a Poorly Disguised Pilot for a spin-off series that would focus on the minor, supporting cast (it would have been called Tales of Springfield). Sadly, the spin-off never came to be, but viewers got a good episode out of it.
  • Bill Oakley posted the original draft for the "Skinner and the Superintendent" skit on his Twitter, showing some minor differences in the dialogue and having a notably different ending exchange that strongly implies Chalmers was on to Skinner's lies the whole time.
  • Josh Weinstein tweeted two pages of an early script draft featuring a story for Lionel Hutz. He would have been hosting a party in the jury room in the middle of a trial and flirting with Marge's mother.
  • There was originally a scene with Krusty and Ralph Wiggum on a plane.
  • In between the Cletus and Comic Book Guy segments, there was supposed to be a segment featuring Hans Moleman. In this segment, Bart would have knocked into him, resulting in his personality changing to that of a badass. In the adventures that follow, he would beat up Rainier Wolfcastle, play poker with Fat Tony, and fight his twin brother Eitenne for his share of his father's corporation. He ends up being slain and meeting God, who says the last half-hour of Moleman's life did not count and brings him Back from the Dead, his usual personality restored. Moleman then accepts Eitenne's surrender and takes a quarter so he can take the bus home, only to loose it thanks to Bart knocking into him again.

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